Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To whir.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To fly rapidly with noise; whir; hurry.

To hurry.

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Examples

Preamble: First, let me say this: I am old enough to remember telephones with whirry dials on the front, and watching a tiny black-and-white television in my nan's kitchen, and Liverpool winning this competition four times on the spin.

When there’s nothing on and I don’t want to move off the sofa, I can flick channels and somewhere, somewhere there will be CSI and I can watch lots of people killing lots of airtime putting unidentified liquids into test tubes with eye droppers and then putting the test tubes into whirry ice-cream makery type thingies.